Manufacture of shoes.



Witnesses. 16

" www" i. T. TEBBUTT.

MANUPAGTURE OP SHOES. .PPLIGATION FILED JUNE 3, 1909.

Patented Dec. 1.2, i911 Inventor.

UNi'rED sriiijnsmiiiqrnur onirica.

JOHN THOMAS TEBBUTT, or .THREE RIVERS, QUEBEC, camine.

MANUrAc'rURE or sHoEs.

1,011,668. 4 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 12, 1911.

' Application tiled .Tune 3, 1909. Serial No. 500,000.

To all whom it may concern: lower lip 3 and rearwardly extending underBe lt'lrnown that I, Jol-1N THOMAS Ilnthe heel portion of the insolebeing :net at BUTT, resident of the town ,of Three Rivers, the sides andend by the upper 5. The Woven in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominionasbestos sole 8 is attached to the insole l by 60 of Canada, a subjectof the King of Great a wheat flour paste 9, said flour paste beingritain, have invented certain new and useextremely essential in thisconstruction as an ful Improvements in the Manufacture of adhesive forsecuring said soles together i hoes; and I do hereby declare that thefoleliminatingl all the deteriorating effects of lowing is a full,clear, and exact description other substances which might be used and 6510 of the same. which :ire so close to the foot of the wearer. Theinvention relates to the manufacture The asbestos sole 8, the insole 1and the of shoes, as described in the present specitilining l0 are allimpregnated with an. antication yand illustrated in the accompanyingseptic compound referablys `compound of drawings that form part of thesame. which eucalyptus is the principal ingredient. 7o Theinventionconsists essentially in ar- The sole 11 is then suitably shapedand ranging and attaching the various'soles andv molded and secured tothe welt, 4 b the generally constructing the shoe in a manner stitching12. It will be thus seen t at ii hereinafter described and particularlypointcomplete outer soie is now provided stitched:

ed out in the claim V y to the welt as customary in shoe making, but 75The objects of the invention are to devise in order to add to thestability of the shoe a shoe in which the construction thereof will andinsure the serviceability of the same., s insure a perfectly dry footshould theshoe solo 13 is shaped similarly to the sole 11 and be' fairlywell worn down, to keep the foot a sole 14 sha ed similarly to the soles'll and in n perfectly sanitary condition, to keep t-he 13. The so es 13and 1,4 are cemented tol 80 foot warm and comfortable within the shoegetlier and molded to fit to the sole 1l. The

and generally to provide a substantial 4form three soles and the welt, ibeing firmly seof footwear without materially increasing cured togetherby the stitching 15, the

the cost. of production. l f lifts of the heel 16 are then secured in Tnvthe drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective place and the shoe is complete.The intro- 85 view of the bottom portion of the shoe, showduction of thedouble soie in the manner dein f parts of the outsoles in longitudinalscribed is a featu'r which tendsto make and cross section and anadditional s ole this shoe perfectly dry, even when the lowertherebeneath turned over. Fig. 2 is a cross outer sole or even themiddle outer sole. is

sectional view of the various soles and upper worn, the single stitchingstill holding the 90 attached thereto, on the lineA-B in Fig. 1. upperouter sole, the said upper outer sole Fig. 3 is a cross sectional viewof the arwith the rest of the shoe forming in themrangement of the heelportion on the line selves a complete shoe, the sameas far as the D inFig. 1. l outer soleis concerned es are at present. man- Like numeralsof reference indicate cor ufact-ured. 'It is possible, of course, to add95 49 responding parts in each ligure. to the lifts of the -sole as isalso constantly In the manufacture of this shoe, the in done, but whenthese lifts are independently solo 1 is split inwardly from the edgefaces .attached to the upper lift and the welt and .forming` the upperlip 2 and the lower lip 3. to one another, t e said lower lifts lbecomethe welt 4; th A'upper 5 and the lower li 3 a separate wearing portionof the shoe iii 100 t5 are then attac ed togethenby the stitching steadof what is commonly known es en in- 6. The water proofing 7 composed ofsuittegral outer sole formed of a plurality of able ingredients is nowapplied on the botlifts. l vtorn of the insole in the corner formed byAn important feature of this invention le the lower lip 3 so that thestitching 6 is com-4 the impregnating of the inner sole and the 195 k0pletely covered by said water proofing comasbestos filling with aneucalyptus compound. The nextv step in this methodv of pound, whichmethod provides, next to the manufacturing the shoe, is'` to form "a,Woven foot, a. thoroughl antiseptic support.A Anasbestos sole 8 and itis important that this other important estare is the method o f ap,soleshould be of said material and of` a. size plying the waterproofcompound, naine! by 11o 5 to lit overthe waterprooing,'the said soleplastering the same into t e corners o the 8 terminating adjacent to theend of the insole formed by the downtuined Dort-ion through which theqftby offectivel stop ing)7 the inner ends of the, stitch holes gypneventing tic entrance of Water through g (i extends, vthere'- f a soid mass of cmnpound and sind stitch holes. A

What T claim as my invention is:

The improvement in the niethod of manufacturing shoes havin an asbestosfiller,

consistng in impregnatmg the asbestos filler and also the inner solewith an eucalyptus e formed bg the downturned portion through which t ewelt stitchingfexteuds a oomiound, packing into the corners of the'in-io inner ends of the stit-ch holes with a solid 15 ing them togetier and to the welt, and 20 finally finishing the heel portion of. theshoe.

Signed at the town of Three Rivers, in the Provlnce of Quebec, in theDominion of Canada., this 1st da. of June 1909.

JOHN T IOMAS TEBBUTT. Witnesses: F. A.FERNEYH0UGH,

M. A. DoUGHm'rY.

